PSYCHOBUNNYGAL, Sarah Eckert, Santa Maria SUN How long have you been selling on Etsy? PSYCHOBUNNYGAL I have been on Etsy and selling since March of this year. I heard about this site from a graphics teacher of mine at Allan Hancock College, actually, Professor Kutz, who mentioned what it was. I was hooked. SUN When […]
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Come to the table
PCPA’s holiday production is best suited to children, families, and Christians
There are three things an adult attending a holiday show on the Central Coast should know. The first of these is that the intended audience is likely families, meaning it’s child-friendly fare. Secondly, there is a reasonable chance the performance will have some religious display, reference, or overtone. The third point ties back to the […]
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Death and games
ARTS Obispo celebrates Dia de los Muertos by combining life with the afterlife
What do a rooster, mermaid, umbrella, watermelon, shrimp, musician, spider, and cactus have in common? Each is an image depicted on a lotería card—a game much like bingo but most prevalently played in Mexico. The lotería cards are putting in an appearance at ARTS Space Obispo in San Luis Obispo through Nov. 13 as part […]
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Saved at the last minute
A Central Coast gallery gets an 11th-hour reprieve
The atmosphere at Cuesta College’s Sept. 2 Board of Trustees meeting was tense—and understandably so. Nine jobs were at stake outright, and another three dozen staff members stood to take substantial losses in pay. People were losing their homes, insisted Allison Merzon, president of the Cuesta College Federation of Teachers. In an 11th-hour save […]
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Bleeding, and coming, out
An author with many names sets the literary record straight … sort of
Lieutenant L.A. Franco flings open the door of an East L.A. apartment, moves determinedly past a table piled with crack cocaine, and ignores a hysterical addict in pursuit of her prey—a thug named Tunnel with an arrest warrant. Her 9-mm drawn, she swings her 5-foot-9 frame into the living room, and fires, splattering the right […]
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Make Dickens and Milton look like bloviated windbags!
55 Fiction is the perfect literary forum for commitment phobes
Fifty-five Fiction is once again upon us. We, at the Sun, can predict the arrival of our annual literary competition with nary a calendar in sight. The anticipation begins in spring, with the slightest of mental twinges, followed by electric charges of excitement intermingled with panic. The masses of entries are on their way; many […]
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Masters of the stage
Revolution is alive and well at PCPA
Perhaps my favorite thing about PCPA (besides eavesdropping on the conversations of fellow audience members that precede each play) is the fact that once you’re somewhat familiar with the company, you begin to compare the actors’ roles in various productions—often with comedic or surprising results. Erik Stein, for example, assumes the role of Javert in […]
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Take a tumble off the Christmas wagon
The Sun has a chat with a couple beloved holiday characters
Our writers recently obtained exclusive interviews with holiday figures, including a ghost from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Santa Claus. We proceeded to ask the tough questions, receiving candid assessments of the health risks posed by Santa’s shaking belly and the ghost of Christmas present’s secret to staying current. SUN I’ve heard conflicting reports; […]
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Get a heavy dose of the tonic of laughter
PCPA does MoliËre proud with a contemporary adaptation of The Imaginary Invalid
Anyone incapable of appreciating the absurd would do well to stay clear of PCPA’s adaptation of MoliÀre’s The Imaginary Invalid. From the basic plot premise—a family’s antics to prevent the hypochondriac patriarch from forcibly marrying his daughter to the son of a doctor—to the characters themselves, the tale is incredulous and very, very funny, particularly […]